Software Engineering Daily

Superhuman with Rahul Vohra

The most popular email client is Gmail, the web-based email client from Google. Gmail is dominant, but that dominance has come at a price, namely speed. Gmail caters to the lowest common denominator,...

Sep 16, 2020

Internet Archive Book Scanning with Davide Semenzin

The Internet Archive collects historical records of the Internet. The Wayback Machine is one tool from the Internet Archive which you may be familiar with. One project you may be unfamiliar with is bo...

Sep 15, 2020

UnifyID: Biometric Authentication with John Whaley

Biometric authentication uses signals from a human’s unique biology to verify identity. Forms of biometric authentication include fingerprints, eye patterns, and the way a person walks, otherwise know...

Sep 14, 2020

Robotic Process Automation with Antti Karjalainen

Robotic process automation involves the scripting and automation of highly repeatable tasks. RPA tools such as UIPath paved the way for a newer wave of automation, including the Robot Framework, an op...

Sep 04, 2020

Modern Venture with Jerry Chen

After working at VMware for 10 years, Jerry Chen developed an expertise in technology companies. Today, he works at Greylock, where he looks at deals in the infrastructure and developer tooling space....

Sep 03, 2020

API Change Management with Aidan Cunniffe

APIs within a company change all the time. Every service owner has an API to manage, and those APIs have upstream and downstream connections. APIs need to be tested for integration points as well as f...

Sep 02, 2020

WebAssembly Migration with Nicolo Davis

WebAssembly allows for the execution of languages other than JavaScript in a browser-based environment. But WebAssembly is still not widely used outside of a few particular niches such as Dropbox and...

Sep 01, 2020

Hyperparameter Tuning with Richard Liaw

Hyperparameters define the strategy for exploring a space in which a machine learning model is being developed. Whereas the parameters of a machine learning model are the actual data coming into a sys...

Aug 28, 2020

Anduril Engineering with Gokul Subramanian

Anduril is a technology defense company with a focus on drones, computer vision, and other problems related to national security. It is a full-stack company that builds its own hardware and software,...

Aug 27, 2020

Machine Learning Labeling and Tooling with Lukas Biewald

CrowdFlower was a company started in 2007 by Lukas Biewald, an entrepreneur and computer scientist. CrowdFlower solved some of the data labeling problems that were not being solved by Amazon Mechanica...

Aug 26, 2020

Software and the Law with Mark Radcliffe

As software permeates our lives, there are an increased number of situations where the legal system must be designed to account for that software. Whether the issues are open source licensing, cryptoc...

Aug 25, 2020

Data Version Control with Dmitry Petrov

Code is version controlled through git, the version control system originally built to manage the Linux codebase. For decades, software has been developed using git for version control. More recently,...

Aug 24, 2020

Release Apps with Tommy McClung

Every software company works off of several different development environments–at the very least there is staging, testing, and production. Every push to staging can be spun up as an application to be...

Aug 21, 2020

ParlAI: Facebook Dialogue Platform with Stephen Roller

Chatbots are useful for developing well-defined applications such as first-contact customer support, sales, and troubleshooting. But the potential for chatbots is so much greater. Over the last five y...

Aug 20, 2020

SuperAnnotate: Image Annotation Platform with Vahan and Tigran Petrosyan

Image annotation is necessary for building supervised learning models for computer vision. An image annotation platform streamlines the annotation of these images. Well-known annotation platforms incl...

Aug 19, 2020